Quote Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle View Post
What concerns me with these reports of these escapes burmese python populations is when the leave out the burmese and just say python. There are many many python species but most people are only aware of the really big one that ate some guy in some country so they think that all pythons are huge and dangerous. Not mentioning the species hides certain facts.
Yes. I think a lot of people have no idea there are different species of pythons. I took my daughter to a pet store recently when we had a little bit of time we needed to kill. My daughter wanted to hold some of the reptiles, so we ended up looking at a boa. I asked the employee how big they get and was told "pretty big, but not as big as a python". Further discussion made it clear she thought the word "python" was synonymous with "giant snake".